You leave my mother's tongue out of this!

oh, what a stupid mistake... obviously, it's mother tongue...

Oh yeah, that too! Now go post all the stuff you bought while you were AFK!

This brief exchange made me laugh more than it had a right to.

I dunno, it seems to be a relatively rare and awkward form regardless, for starters simply compare the Google results of "guitar soli" to "guitar solos" (this is a rather good gauge of common word usage). Also, varying between different forms of plural in the same text for the purpose of "diversity and fluidity" strikes me as pretty abstruse and pointless. Do you also switch between AE and BE spelling to spice things up? But whatever floats your boat, not much of an issue, just seems strange.

Indeed, it's not an issue of correctness. It's simply amusing, like someone using phrases from early modern English completely deadpan in a review or something.

Hey kluseba, Shakespeare approves of the new In Flames!

Great concise description of Resignaatio Ilwhyan. Although I'm not sure if I prefer it as it is or if I'd rather have you expand on the description to the point of personalizing the little details about the songs. Anyway, it's good to see (read) some love on that album.

Thanks!

That one is problematic to review, since each song is completely different. I wanted to avoid anything resembling track-by-track, as that style inevitably leads to redundancy and bloatedness, so I picked examples of songs where needed in regards to what I wanted to discuss about the album in general.

I'm looking to write a bit more concisely in future. The Baptism review is long and bloated in part because it's an older unfinished review, and in part because it was very difficult for me to write.

I understand your reasoning, and by all means the review is fine as it is. But it's funny though because even though it says everything that needs be said I sort of secretly desired for a bit more of depth in the examples. It's hard to explain really, but I guess you know what I'm trying to say. Keep up the good work!

doomknocker's two 0% reviews were a good read. And any review dismissing Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler as tripe is golden in my books.


Haha, good God, no.

*awaits MutantClannfear's rebuttal*

http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/F ... ard/118750

Talk about an absolutely hilarious read!

Very smug in tone, but excellently written. I also commend his ability to sit through that garbage and survive.

I don't agree with him but it's actually a good review, unlike the bitterman one expressing similar sentiments. Plus it's good he at least tries to see it from a balanced point of view without flying into hyperbole over its supposed commercialism, anti-metal nature, etc.

How the hell did I miss that new Besatt album? didn't even read the review yet, but glad someone reviewed it and made me notice! EDIT: read the review and listened to some of the album on youtube, freaking awesome and possibly more aggressive than their last one even.

I cannot recall how many emails I have received to please please write about this thing ... makes me want to give it zero points. Just in order to piss people off.

Really? that's friggin weird... I'm apparently one of the only long time Besatt followers and I didn't know this existed until right now. I can't find it for sale from any of my normal places that usually have just about everything and the band's store doesn't even have it. Their label's website sucks, I've had less trouble ordering from sites in 100% German which I only know about 5 words and 2 of them are ist krieg EDIT: How can I get in on this getting promos of everything deal?

Just join in with a magazine. I get a lot of stuff from Against Magazine ...

I got some shady email about it too, but it only had some strange link and the album title in the subject. Thankfully I also received it through a PR agency, because I don't click on things that look like they shouldn't be clicked on.

So are we doing a new review challenge, or not? I have a handful of albums I'm just sitting on reviewing, and I'll wait a bit for a challenge if there is one coming.

we got stuck on finding someone to keep track of things.

Upon re-reading my review I think I was trying way too hard to separate myself from my old reviewing persona "Shitty ultraboris rip off". To be honest it had been in the works for a past couple of months: I would write and delete sections over and over while drunk so it took ages to finally complete. I've still got like ten half-written reviews with scattered sentences and ideas. I've got an assload of free time now so I'm going to try and clean them up and complete them soon. I'll try not to write while drunk but I promise nothing.



I actually really like bitterman but think he could use an editor. It's nice to have an obvious villain and amidst his tirades are moments of genuine clarity and insight. What do you not agree with specifically? 'The Flesh Prevails' is at best a shoegazey-djent offshoot; over-produced and reveling in praise from people who use their broad taste as a bragging right.

It's a good album with strong songwriting. It isn't a masterpiece, but they do the generic tech death well and the experimental stuff is actually really cool and interesting.

I posted this yesterday in what was probably the wrong thread so i'm bringing it over here

- I was reading dismember_marcin's review of Taake's Noreg Vaapen and out of nowhere, it turned into an anti-semitic rant





I usually like his death metal reviews as we seem to have quite similar tastes, but this was absolutely unnecessary and uncalled for.
Is such a thing allowed or did this slip under the radar?

I'd be down. I have a retardedly good memory and make Excel spreadsheets of things for fun. Do I qualify?

And what date would be the best choice? I do not have much time right now.

Crazy people sometimes find happiness in unexpected places. You're hired.

I know the big issue before was people having difficulty working around university schedules, with finals and what not. Hopefully we can find an agreeable week to do this on.

i suggest some week in january or febuary. I am quite sure that a lot of people are more busy than usual in the period before christmas and doing this month is a bit on short notice i feel.

To the mods, I apologize for constantly drafting and submitting reviews, I'm a perfectionist, but I tend to overlook grammar errors now and then...which I usually fix right away.

*shrugs* those are easy to deal with, no big deal. The review queue has been consistently cleared for nearly a week now so it isn't as if we can't handle it.

Hmmmmm......doesn't look like it should be. I'll send him a PM and take care of it.

It's competent and I respect what they are trying to achieve, but that doesn't absolve them of their complete inability to write a compelling song. I feel like the tech death elements are sparse and lack any sort of gravitas, but there are times where their implementation of alternative rock influences does work to some degree but it is always immediately quashed by the shitty tech death surrounding it.

Seriously, they should just an entire album of "Chemical Cave" because that song is fucking lovely.

Meh, I loved the entire album. I don't know if it's timeless yet since it was only released this year but I love practically every second of it. Grew on me quiet a lot since the first listen. I'm not even into tech death but coming in from listening to large amounts of progressive metalcore / post-hardcore it was easier than going in the other way.

It's default techdeath covering up its lack of decent songwriting with atmospheric stuff to distract from how clueless they are. Nothing special, just interesting given how "different" they wanted to be, but pretty mediocre overall.

Listen to Kardashev if you wanna know what Fallujah's idea would sound like if they knew how to write a song.

One of LeMis' better reviews by a margin. Definitely improving.

I usually like his death metal reviews as we seem to have quite similar tastes, but this was absolutely unnecessary and uncalled for.
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Hmmmmm......doesn't look like it should be. I'll send him a PM and take care of it.[/quote]

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And what's that now? Censorship??? Really? Censorship in metal scene? On a page, where you can find hundreds of NSBM bands, etc? Ha, please, don't waste my time... But to make it clear. Not antisemitic here, but only pointing out something with anger. But fuck that. You can delete the review, it's on my page anyway... I sutery don't tolerate any kind of censorship

You are missing the point. The bands on MA's database are NOT MA's property. What bands do is up to them, if their message is hateful, foul or racism in any way, that's the band's responsbility, not MA's...MA is "merely" there to provide a database for every metal band on earth, metallic NSBM bands included.

You are using MA's resources (in this case, the review field) to promote your discriminating views on a certain group of people, bands don't use MA for that. You effectively use MA as a way to promote racism, as that what you wrote is clearly flat-out racism, no question.

The bands promote racism through their music, MA doesn't encourage bands to do anything, they merely provide information on them. What bands do with their lyrics, is up to them, not MA.